v11.0.0-beta.16

What's Changed

Bug Fixes 🐛

• fix(io): preserve Windows UNC share roots by @app/lance-gatefixer in #8378
• fix(encoding): validate variable-width Arrow offsets by @app/lance-gatefixer in #8382
• fix: support bitwise shift SQL expressions by @app/lance-gatefixer in #8388
• fix(fts): include must-not clauses in query planning by @ddupg in #8443
• fix(fsst): reject corrupt symbol tables and offsets on decode by @Xuanwo in #8588
• fix(java): preserve sessions on dataset checkout by @app/lance-gatefixer in #8650
• fix(fts): preserve exact wand score bounds by @BubbleCal in #8666
• fix(fts): chunk posting reads during segment merge by @BubbleCal in #8668
• fix: encode JSON string expressions during updates by @app/lance-gatefixer in #8669
• fix(io): add upload context to object store write failures by @jackye1995 in #8682
• fix(fts): derive empty segment codec from format by @BubbleCal in #8687

Documentation 📚

• docs: update Jeremy Leibs' affiliation by @Xuanwo in #8683

Performance Improvements 🚀

• perf(rowids): keep the scan position when reading a segment in order by @pengw0048 in #8534
• perf(index): route fp16 IVF partition assignment through an AMX-FP16 GEMM by @xtangxtang in #8540
• perf(ci): parallelize Python tests and shorten the macOS Rust job by @wjones127 in #8628
• perf(dataset): binary search the manifest in get_fragment by @zhangyue19921010 in #8636

Other Changes

• refactor(table): split transaction.rs into a module tree by @wjones127 in #8056
• refactor(fts): add exact posting load policies by @BubbleCal in #8667

Full Changelog: v11.0.0-beta.15...v11.0.0-beta.16